Message From The Pastor for June 15

Message from the Pastor for Father's Day Sunday
Today is Father’s Day. We fathers need to remind our children to love not only their earthly fathers but also their Heavenly Father. They have to please not only their earthly fathers but also their Heavenly Father.
“What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.”(I Corinthians 7:29-31)
“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.”(II Peter 3:10)
“The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.”(I John 2:17)
Men thought the world is for ever. Life is real. Things in the world are reliable. While the end time is approaching, only spiritual men can discern what is eternal, real and reliable. “The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment: “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?”(I Corinthians 2:15-16)
If we really believe in God, we will not be bogged down by the things of this world. Let us concentrate on matters that are holy, pure, Godly and pleasing in the sight of the Lord. For only these are things that will make our heavenly Father happy.

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今天是父親節。我們在地上做父親的，要常常提醒兒女們，不要單愛地上的父親，更重要的，是愛天上的父。不要單討地上父親的喜悅，更要緊的，是討天父的喜悅。
“用世物的，要像不用世物；因為這世界的樣子將要過去了。”（林前7：31）願神開我們的眼睛，看見世界的樣子將要過去了，時候減少了，有一天，地和其上的物，都要燒盡了，天必大有響聲廢去，有形質的都要被烈火銷化了（彼後3：10）。現在這末世的時候，可以說，那有妻子的要像沒有妻子，哀哭的要像不哀哭，快樂的要像不快樂，置買的，要像無有所得；用事物的要像不用世物的，因為全世界要過去了。（約壹2：17）人將站在何地呢？一切都要被火燒盡，還能剩下甚麼呢？在大災難的時候，人還盼望甚麼呢？
人本來以為世界是永恒的，人生是真實的，世物是可靠的。但在天地都要改變的前夕，徵兆已經顯露的時候，萬物都會有異樣的感覺，可是人不都能感覺到那要來的極大變化，只有屬靈的人，能看透萬事（林前2：15）。真相信神話語的人，才能參考聖經的預言，有所察覺。有許多的預兆正在應驗，外界的情形和人心的光景都會有現象。
如果相信神的話，有屬靈的眼光，看到世界的樣子，將要過去，時候不多了。那麼就要無所掛慮，牽連，無可愛慕留戀。神既然決定除去舊造換成新造，為甚麼要和舊的世界一同過去呢？一切事物都要成為被提的障礙和累贅。還是追求聖潔，敬虔，殷勤，使自己沒有指摘，安然見主。其它都可有可無，甚至越少越好，可以專心為主，討主的喜悅。